Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-30
SANTA ANA VALLEY.
Railroad Building and
Other improvements.
ANAHEIM FORGING AHEAD.
Large Sales of Land-Material
Growth in All Branches
Fruit Crops Good.

Last Thursday the writer drove fro
Anahem to Scamp No. 81 the last
the A., T. & s. f. parties of graders lie
in the Santa Ana Canon. An early sta
was made, and the route chosen VIZ
eastwardly from the town directly t.
wards the new townsite of st. Jamel
near Burruel Point. In the middle {
the wide wash of the Santa Ana rivel
the grade of the new railroad was Ell
countered, and this was then closely fol
lowed in northeasterly direction int
the canon.
The camp was reached at noon, an
the Superintendent of Construction, Mr.
A. J. Hughes, was found busily engage,
seeing that his men were properly caret
for in the important matter of dinner
From this gentleman some particular
as to the future movements of the road
builders were learned. As stated, th
camp is the last one to get out O
the oafon. The roadbed is. al
fully finished, excepting the max
ing of bridges and culverts
from San Bernardino to below Burrue
Point. There are four camps of graders
now at work between that place and
Santa Ana, and as the work is light in
that stretch, the grading is going along
at a rapid pace. Mr.. Hughes expected
to complete his work in the canon by las
Saturday night, and to move camp to-
day, Monday. He was engaged in max.
ing the last cut, which is one of several
hundred feet in length, and sixty feet
deep, at the mouth of the canon, jus,
above the little church at Yorba. The
bottom of this cut is of pretty hard
rock, and much blasting was necessary
TO do the work.
Mr.. Hughes had some seventy-fve
men and thirty.five teams, or seventy
animals, working on the cut. Nearly
all these animals were mules, and were
brought out by rail from Kansas City,
having been all raised in Missouri. OF
the men at work, large gang were
Mexicans who had recently been
brought up from Old Mexico to do
this work.
Here are two pointers as to Southern
California. First, there is big money
to be made here raising mules for the
market. One of the teams at work con.
sisted of six mules and two horses used
on the big plow which loosens the dirt
for the scrapers. The eight animals are
all tine ones and are valued at $1,000.
They can be raised here at that price
and leave q good margin of profit.
Second, the labor market is not over
stocked, as is evidenced by the fact that
these men from Old Mexico find ready
employment on the road. The A., 7. u
s. F. will not employ Chinese labor.
They say there is more money to them
in paying better wages to Intelligent
white men. One who saw this gang of
seventy-five men at work in the bottom
of a cut hardly twenty feet wide, and
all going like .clockwork, no one get.
ting in the way of his neighbor, must
see the correctness of such view.
When Mr.. Hughes moves camp he
will go at one jump 40 miles to San Juan
Capistrano, and his gang now the last
in the string will then lead all the others.
The work is light from Burruel Point to
San Juan, but from the latter point
to San Diego it is mostly heavy-some of
it very heavy. By the early days in
July the grade is expected to be done to
San Juan, and soon after that the track
layers will be there too.
The track is now down to about mid
way between Arlington and South Rlv.
erside, where the tracklayers have been
lying idle for several days waiting for
fish. plates to go on with their work.
Thaoa nf tho nqtarr al
have at last arrived, and this morning
the laying of rails will 60 on at the rate
of over mile day. The only element
of delay now existing is the bridge work.
Across the Santa Ana at Burruel
point there is bridge of 5000 feet to
construct. This is low, aad will proba.
bly, be 'cribbed" up for the present and
the permanent structure put in at leis.
are. There are several other viaducts
to be built, some of them 1900 feet long
and SO high that cribbing will not do.
1t seems to be the set purpose OF the
company to reach San Diego before the
close of the present year, in order that
should the Temecula Canon, or the Cal.
ifornia Southern line be washed out,
there will be another road to get to the
terminus. The same happy result will
be accomplished by this enterprising
road as regards this city when the
branch from Santa Ana is completed to
Los Angeles. There will he two lines in
from San Bernardino, and this will also
be done before the curtain is rung down
on the year 1887.
TIE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
BuS the Atchison Topeka and Santa
Fe are no wise likely to enjoy monopo,
ly of all this enterprise. All talk Of
there being but one outlet for a road
south of San Juan, or of any compact
existing, whereby the two giant corpora
tions agree to divide the business OF the
State, is sheer nonsense. The Southern
Pacific Company have line all arranged
to San Diego. and they will build on from
Santa Ana at no distant day. If any
one wishes to be convinced of this hi
has but to make trip over the South
ern Pacific branch, now operated t.
Santa Ana. Two well.flled passenge
trains day pass between Los Angele
and Santa Ana, and vice versa. Agrea
freight train each way daily, does hug
business. There is not u station in tn
valley where a great string OF lumber
laden fats does not stand on the sld
tracks, and these are each and ever.
day replaced by others. From
one end Of the line to the other the en-
tire distance of forty miles is almost al
unbroken succession of the finest orang
groves, vineyards and general orchard
in the country. Besides all sorts Q
country produce abounds for miles eacl
side of the track. Santa Ana is only
little over halfway to San Jnar
and the country all around is capable
great development. The Southern II
citic Company will assuredly occup
this whole field at once, and compete ft
the great traffic of the richest valley I'll
sun shines on in his daily rounds.
THE CROP OUTLOOK.
The farmers all along the valley al
now busy cutting as fine crop of hay
avar was harvested, The straw is u,